Fiction · 1906
The Story of the Amulet
The Story of the Amulet, first published in 1906, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter I — The Psammead
- Chapter II — The Half Amulet
- Chapter III — The Past
- Chapter IV — Eight Thousand Years Ago
- Chapter V — The Fight in the Village
- Chapter VI — The Way to Babylon
- Chapter VII — “The Deepest Dungeon Below the Castle Moat”
- Chapter VIII — The Queen in London
- Chapter IX — Atlantis
- Chapter X — The Little Black Girl and Julius Caesar
- Chapter XI — Before Pharaoh
- Chapter XII — The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy
- Chapter XIII — The Shipwreck on the Tin Islands
- Chapter XIV — The Heart’s Desire
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1858–1924 · Victorian
Edith Nesbit (1858–1924), who published as E. Nesbit, was born in London and spent an itinerant childhood following her widowed mother around England and the Continent in search of a healthier climate for a sickly older sister. In 1880 she married Hubert Bland, with whom she co-founded the socialist Fabian Society the following year; his chronic infidelity and the unconventional household that resulted — for years she raised two of his children by his mistress and secretary alongside her own — left her the family's primary breadwinner, and she wrote constantly and commercially to support it. Turning to children's fiction in her forties, she found her lasting form in stories of ordinary children who stumble into real magic within recognisably everyday English settings: Five Children and It (1902), introducing the cantankerous sand-fairy the Psammead, began a trilogy continued in The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906), alongside The Railway Children (1906). Her blend of the fantastic and the domestic directly shaped later writers including C. S. Lewis and Edward Eager. She died in Kent at sixty-five.
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